Headshot Presskit FINAL - Memento Films International

Director's Biography
Pen-ek was born in Bangkok in 1962. He spent eight formative years in his late teens and early twenties in New
York City, where he studied at the Pratt Institute, majoring in Art History. He went on to work as a freelance
illustrator and graphic designer. Back in Thailand, he was appointed Head of Art at the Leo Burnett agency and
spent five years as an art director before directing TV commercials.
He made his debut as a feature film director in 1997 with a movie that broke the mold of Thai cinema, and has
since produced a stream of innovative films. He is one of the handful of directors who have helped to reinvent the
Thai film industry since its slump in the 1990s, and has pioneered both the trend of looking back at retro Thai pop
culture for inspiration and the expansion of Thai cinema into the realms of international casting and coproduction.
His films have been screened in festivals around the world, and he has picked up numerous festival prizes.
Filmography
2011 Headshot (Fon Tok Kuen Fah)
2009 Sawasdee Bangkok / segment “Silence” – Toronto Film Festival
2009 Nymph (Nangmai) – Cannes Un Certain Regard
2007 Luminous Sound (Siang Sawang) - short
2007 Ploy – Cannes Directors’ Fortnight
2006 Total Bangkok - short
2006 Twelve Twenty - short
2006 Invisible Waves (Khampipaksa Chak Mahasamut) – Berlin Competition
2003 Last Life in The Universe (Ruang Rak Noi Nid Mahasarn) – Venice Upstream
2002 Mon-rak Transistor – Cannes Directors’ Fortnight
1999 6ixtynin9 (Ruang Talok Hok Kao) – Berlin Forum
1997 Fun Bar Karaoke – Berlin Forum